ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,920, issued on April 8, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for features engineering" was invented by Sebastien Ouellet (Ottawa), Zhen Lin (Ottawa), Christopher Wang (Ottawa) and Chantal Bisson-Krol (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for features engineering, in which internal and external signals are received and fused. The fusing is based on meta-data of each of the one or more internal signals and each of the one or more external signals. A set of features is generated based on one or more valid combinations that match a transformation input, the transformation forming part of librar...